Al Ahly retain African title
Al Ahly players celebrate their CAF Champions League victory on Saturday 11 November 2006.
(AFP) FETHI BELAID
(AFP) 11 Nov 2006
Mohamed Aboutrika scored two minutes into stoppage time to give Al Ahly of Egypt a record-equalling fifth African Champions League title on Saturday.
The dramatic 1-0 triumph before a sell-out 52,000 crowd at the November 7 Stadium left Ahly 2-1 winners on aggregate and they became only the third club to successfully the title.
Midfielder Aboutrika scored his eighth goal of the competition with a low, left-foot volley past goalkeeper Ahmed Jaouachi after a Sfaxien defender partially cleared a cross.
Ahly won the territorial and possession battles after taking the initiative from the kickoff knowing they had to score otherwise Sfaxien would lift the trophy for the first time on the away-goal rule.
But pre-competition no-hopers Sfaxien squandered the best chance of the opening half when unmarked Issam Merdassi headed wide with the goal at his mercy.
Jaouachi made an acrobatic save to foil Hossam Ashour, but luck was on the side of the Tunisian when a Flavio Amado shot rebounded off the crossbar with 11 mintues left.
With time ticking away, it appeared as if patient, cautious Sfaxien would bring the trophy to Tunisia a third time until Aboutrika struck and triggered an immediate exodus of Tunisian supporters.
after writing these words the reporter of the FIFA MEDIA asked the egyptian CRESPO elly 7atet el mawdoo3 da what should they do in japan and CRESPO said that they must concetrete in this champion to be the stars of the world. but first egyptians should stand beside their team and not give up so our players plays well and return to us with the world cup of footballclubs
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